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Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead is coming to Vita, headlining a line-up of more than 85 games due for the handheld by the end of the year. The complete first series of the acclaimed episodic download hit will be included in a new bundle with PlayStation Vita, as well as …

Ubisoft lifted the lid on its big new project at E3 today, Tom Clancy’s The Division. Developed by Swedish studio Massive Entertainment, the game is an open-world RPG that is coming to both PS4 and Xbox One. It was the ‘one last thing’ at the publisher’s pre-E3 press conference, and …

The UFC series will return next year as a PS4 and Xbox One title. Titled EA Sports UFC, this will be the first entry in the series since Electronic Arts took over the licence from THQ last year. As was announced at the Xbox One reveal two weeks ago, the …

Electronic Arts showed off the first footage of the latest Need For Speed at tonight’s E3 press conference. As announced last month, NFS Rivals is being developed by new studio Ghost Games in partnership with Criterion. It is built on the Frostbite 3 engine, and is due on Xbox 360, …

Ubisoft Massive's MD discusses The Division's development, engine and next-gen

Presentation kicks off at 2pm UK time, 6pm PST

South Park: The Stick of Truth will be out ‘holiday’ or Christmas, as we like to call it. The game was originally due from THQ before the company entered liquidation, and was scheduled to arrive in Q2. The game was rescued by Ubisoft, but clearly the publisher wasn’t able to …

The major third-party publishers have yet to decide their strategy on pre-owned games – but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has a hunch little will change. Last week Microsoft put an end to weeks of speculation about Xbox One being ‘against’ second-hand games, by confirming a new structure for game ownership …

Ubisoft has unveiled a new online open world RPG based in the Tom Clancy universe called The Division. The title is in development at Ubisoft Massive, which the publisher acquired in 2008. The studio has been at work on the game since 2009. The Division takes place during a national …